Former detective Alexa Crowe is lured into the world of murder and mystery when her friend and colleague asks her to look into the death of a woman who fell from the balcony of a male escort.

A man is found shot dead in a motel room. The door has been chain-locked from the inside. How could someone kill him and escape when the door was locked from the inside?

When Hugh Miller, CFO of a hospitality empire, dies on a cycling ride with friends, the coroner rules it death by misadventure. But Kieran suspects the involvement of Hugh's boss, hard-driving entrepreneur Roger Simms, and asks Alexa to look into it.

Culinary student Ivan Zhang was found dead in the school's kitchen after slipping on oil and smacking his head. Kieran considers the scene suspicious. Alexa goes undercover to the cooking class to smoke out the killer.

PR assistant Christina Cortez was killed in a hit-and-run by a drunk driver who turned herself in a few days later. It seems like a tragic-but closed-case. But who sent Christina the message that prompted her to be at that spot in the first place?

Alexa investigates a case that runs the gamut of birth, marriage and murder when a young man is found dead in an alley after a fight at his brothers wedding.